From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:14:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140212101423.GC29702@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391696171-8922-3-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:16:10PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> Rather than have separate hugetlb and transparent huge page pmd
> manipulation functions, re-wire our thp functions to simply call the
> pte equivalents.
That's one thing I don't like about hugetlb, casting pmds to ptes. Do we
actually save much in terms of code clean-up by doing this?
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-12 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-06 14:16 [PATCH 0/3] arm64: Use pte manipulation functions for THP Steve Capper
2014-02-06 14:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: mm: Remove PMD_BIT_FUNC macro Steve Capper
2014-02-06 14:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents Steve Capper
2014-02-12 10:14 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-02-12 10:32 ` Steve Capper
2014-02-20 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-02-06 14:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: mm: Correct definition of pmd_mknotpresent Steve Capper
2014-02-12 9:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] arm64: Use pte manipulation functions for THP Steve Capper
2014-02-12 10:07 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-12 10:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-02-12 10:21 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-12 11:50 ` Steve Capper
2014-02-12 12:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-12 13:47 ` Catalin Marinas
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